Bailey will remain in a penitentiary until the Parole Board of Canada feels his risk can be safely managed in the community.

The sentence comes four years after a jury found Bailey guilty of eight charges stemming from the attack — three counts of sexual assault with a weapon and single counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm, trying to choke the woman, administering a stupefying drug, unlawful confinement and uttering a death threat.

Jurors weren’t told that Bailey had been declared a long-term offender after sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 1997. He was released from prison in March 2008 after serving all eight years of his sentence for that crime, in which he held a pair of scissors to the girl’s throat.

Nine months later, Bailey attacked the woman in a room at Point Pleasant Lodge. She went there believing she was participating in a swimwear photo shoot for a Florida scuba shop that Bailey claimed to own.

The woman was drugged, sexually assaulted and nearly strangled by Bailey, who has used a wheelchair since a 1990 car accident.

She let Bailey tape her arms together to help her hold a pose, but when he kept applying the tape she panicked and tried to get away. Bailey put a shoelace around her neck and tried to stuff a sock into her mouth.

The woman said she stopped struggling in hopes of saving her life, as Bailey sexually assaulted her with his mouth and penetrated her with his fingers and a cucumber.

Bailey pleaded guilty in June 2010 to breaching the long-term offender order and was also sentenced for that offence Friday.

This dangerous-offender hearing got underway in December 2012. The judge heard closing submissions last December.

“It has taken a considerable amount of time to arrive at this juncture,” McDougall said during his 75-minute decision.

He said most of the delays were due to Bailey’s inability to keep a lawyer. Bailey now represents himself.

Bailey has attacked five other women over the years, the judge said, and has been diagnosed as a psychopath with anti-social personality disorder and a sexual sadist.

A forensic psychiatrist who testified for the Crown said Bailey’s wheelchair is not a hindrance but a prop that he uses to exploit his victims.

The judge ordered Bailey to provide a DNA sample for a national databank. If he ever gets out of prison, he will have to register as a sex offender and won’t be allowed to have firearms.

After McDougall gave his decision, Bailey asked if he could say something to the court.

“This is not the time to address the court, Mr. Bailey,” the judge said. “You’ve been given plenty of opportunities over the past four years to do that.”

The judge gathered his papers and left the room.

“Thank you for your biased system, sir,” Bailey called out.

Outside court, Crown attorney Paul Carver said Bailey will be offered counselling and treatment within the federal prison system and will be eligible for parole.

“It is not a situation where people are warehoused or locked up and the key is thrown away,” Carver said. “They attempt to do what they can for them. The problem is that many of these conditions are so deeply rooted in individuals that they can’t change.”

The victim, now 24, attended court with her mother and said it was a “happy day.”

“It feels really good that justice has been served and I don’t have to think about it anymore,” the woman told reporters.

“It’s been a long time, so I’ve had a lot of time to heal. … I’m a much stronger person than I was.”

She said it is comforting to know that Bailey might not ever be free again. Asked what she would say if she could speak to her attacker, she responded: “I don’t think I would want to say anything to him. I don’t have any words for him.”